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Spelling: We reviewed soft syllable endings, such as in the words mountain, fountain, certain, again. These words are spelling surprises because the endings aren’t pronounced like they are written.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 60-62 are due on Friday after break.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some students worked on summarizing and using context clues as reading strategies.

Writing: Students continued drafting for our next writing project, a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Friday, January 17. Students should be drafting the beginning of their adventure story at this point.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: Students worked on finished addition, subtraction, place value, and rounding skills in Khan Academy.

Science: We reviewed our last experiment about light and energy.

Social Studies: We started to learn about the global economy and imports.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 2
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 11
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 3): 2

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Our Mexican Fiesta is Friday, December 20 from 11-2. Family members are invited to attend and help with serving. See our volunteer list and add your name to the guest list.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Spelling: We learned common spelling patterns for the /s/ sound: ss, s, sc, ce, ci, cy.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 58-59 are due on Thursday.

Reading: Today was a MobyMax Reading and AR practice day.

Writing: Students started drafting for our next writing project, a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Friday, January 17. Students should be drafting the beginning of their adventure story at this point.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: We reviewed subtraction today. The matching journal page is P4-4. Students also practiced math skills using MobyMax Math.

Science: Students completed an experiment about light and energy. Homework is to finish the What is Light? experiment.

Social Studies: None today due to visiting the holiday shop.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 8
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 3): 3

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Our Mexican Fiesta is Friday, December 20 from 11-2. Family members are invited to attend and help with serving. See our volunteer list and add your name to the guest list.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Spelling: Students continued to make Words to Learn lists from words they missed on the last spelling test. Homework is to finish making the list and return it to school tomorrow if not finished in class.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 58-59 are due on Thursday.

Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.

Writing: Students worked on prewriting for our next writing project, a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Friday, January 17. Students should be thinking of adventure story and character ideas at this point.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: Students completed a STAR Math test today. Here’s a chart of our recent progress is below. We are continuing to make progress toward our class math level goal. You can see your student’s most recent math level by checking Student or ParentVue.

Science: Students finished completing a district electricity and magnetism test today.

Social Studies: We worked on an activity about making paper snowmen by cutting out and assembling various parts. Some groups worked in an assembly line, and others completed the entire product themselves. The assembly lines completed more snowmen and felt the job was easier to do. Students also completed a MiniQuiz about specialization and division of labor.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 1
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 7
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 3): 3

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Our Mexican Fiesta is Friday, December 20 from 11-2. Family members are invited to attend and help with serving. See our volunteer list and add your name to the guest list.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Spelling: Students started making Words to Learn lists from words they missed on the last spelling test. Homework is to finish making the list and return it to school tomorrow.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 58-59 are due on Thursday.

Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some groups worked on breaking words into chunks and using clues to make inferences.

Writing: We began our next writing project, a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.

This project is due Friday, January 17. Students should be thinking of adventure story and character ideas at this point.

Choose Your Own Adventure Resources

• See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
• Here are some good student examples:
  • William’s Roanoke Adventure
  • Abel’s Aztec Terror
  • Katie’s Lost Statue hunt
  • Nancy’s Under Water Adventure!
• Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
• Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
• Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story.
• View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas.
• Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
• Find a complete list of resources here.

Math: We reviewed addition today and checking an answer by estimating. The matching Journal page is P4-3. Students also used Khan Academy to practice math skills.

Science: None today due to art.

Social Studies: None today.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 5
• Orange magnets: 1
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 6
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 14): 0

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Our Mexican Fiesta is Friday, December 20 from 11-2. Family members are invited to attend and help with serving. See our volunteer list and add your name to the guest list.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.

Spelling: None today.

Cursive: Cursive workbook pp. 52-57 are due on Monday.

Reading: Today was a reading skills practice day using MobyMax Reading and AR.

Writing: Students worked on publishing today.

Our current piece of writing is a fiction story, due Monday, December 16. Your student should be publishing by now.

Math: We practiced math skills using MobyMax Math and Khan Academy.

Science: Students completed an electricity and magnetism district science test today.

Social Studies: We learned more about how assembly lines use specialization and division of labor to increase productivity.

Behavior Update:

• Yellow magnets: 0
• Orange magnets: 0
• Red magnets: 0
• STAR Awards: 0
• Magnets moved this week (goal: 9): 1
• Hours with no magnets (Last time: 1): 14

Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.

Notes:

• Our Mexican Fiesta is Friday, December 20 from 11-2. Family members are invited to attend and help with serving. See our volunteer list and add your name to the guest list.
• Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
• Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
• View grades, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.

Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.